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The Obama-Christie Contrast: Doing 'Big Things' Their Own Way
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyBack-to-back appearances this week by President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie put a fascinating spotlight on two opposite styles of leadership. Christie is the self-styled bull crashing through the china shop. Obama is the deliberative shopper who threads his way through the narrow aisles and tries to keep breakage to a minimum. In their manner and appearance, the pair could not be more of a contrast. Christie, a former prosecutor, is large and blunt, with "a little Jersey attitude," as Henry Olsen, vice president of the American Enterprise Institute, put it Wednesday. ...
Polls Show Public May Not Know What It Wants on Health Care Law
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Another day, another health care poll. The latest CBS News poll shows 55 percent oppose Republican efforts to cut funding for the new health care law. Democratic rapid-response teams quickly e-mailed the CBS poll. It bolstered their argument that GOP efforts to get around the Senate's refusal to vote on repeal by zeroing out funding will backfire politically down the road. Yet the survey also tracked others in giving Republicans something to crow about: 51 percent said they disapprove of the law vs. 33 percent who approve. Further in the weeds, however, opinion was almost ...
How Vulnerable Democrats Might Attack Obama's Health Care Bill
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyWith 2012 approaching, vulnerable Senate Democrats representing red states are desperately searching for creative ways to distance themselves from President Obama's health care law. Of course, if they attack it too harshly, they risk angering their liberal base -- and donors. (This, of course, is the kind of "wedge issue" Republicans relish seeing Democrats struggle with.) Recent court decisions have focused on the constitutionality of the individual mandate, but moderate Democrats hoping to move to the right to stave off defeat must tread carefully. As liberal blogger Greg Sargent has ...
Opinion: Waiver-ing on Health Care Reform
By John Merline - AOL NewsWhen the House passed health reform in March, Joe Hansen, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, responded with fulsome praise. "This is an achievement that will rank among the highest in our national experience," he said. Among other things, he said, the law would put "an end to the worst of insurance company abuses," including "lifetime limits on the dollar value of benefits." Less than six months later, UFCW sent a note to its members complaining that "the gradual elimination of annual limits on benefits under the Act has a significant impact on many of ...
Anti-Abortion Bills Crowding Onto U.S. House Agenda
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIn a year when fixing the economy is expected to dominate debate on Capitol Hill, abortion -- an issue that won't go away -- is crowding onto the Republican agenda. Two bills -- one permanently barring taxpayer funding of abortions and the other forbidding federally financed abortion coverage under the new health care law -- got hearings this week in the House. And they riled up activists on both sides of the debate. Emotions came to the fore Tuesday at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. It attempts to write into permanent law the 1976 ...
Opinion: Why 'Obamacare' Is Hurting the Economy
By Marty Robins - AOL NewsIn his speech to the Chamber of Commerce on Monday, President Barack Obama urged companies to use the "nearly $2 trillion sitting on their balance sheets" and start hiring workers. "I want to encourage you to get in the game," he said. It's a good point, made better by his willingness to speak in that forum. Nineteen months into the economic recovery, we're still dealing with anemic growth and 9 percent unemployment. But if the president and the rest of Washington want business to start hiring again, they'll need to do more than issue stern words, lacking legal effect. They need to resolve ...
South Dakota Lawmakers Push Bill for Mandatory Gun Ownership
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyAmericans feel strongly about protecting the right to own a gun, and many feel equally strongly about their right to forgo health insurance. One doesn't necessarily follow the other, but there's enough of a correlation that in South Dakota five legislators have introduced legislation that would make it mandatory for anyone who reaches the age of 21 to purchase a firearm that they would then use for their self-defense. It's known as the "Act to provide for an individual mandate to adult citizens to provide for the self-defense of themselves and others." In political terms, it's a smackdown to ...
Many Have 'False Impressions' About Health Care Reform, Survey Finds
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyIn the year leading up to President Obama's signing of the Affordable Care Act, and in the year since, there's been no shortage of information -- and misinformation -- about the sweeping health care reform law. Among all the headlines about Medicaid expansion and rhetoric about "death panels," how well do Americans understand what the law actually entails? That's the question behind a survey out Wednesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The survey, in the form of a "pop quiz," asked Americans whether they thought a series of 10 provisions were included in the new law. Five items (ie. ...
Republican Repeal of Health Care Fails in Senate
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailySenate Democrats defeated a Republican-sponsored amendment to strike down the nation's new health care law by a 51 to 47 vote, effectively ending the GOP's congressional campaign to repeal the controversial legislation. Emboldened by a ruling on Monday from U.S. District judge Roger Vinson of Florida that deemed the new law unconstitutional, Senate Republicans committed themselves to making good on an election-year promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The Senate repeal was attached as an amendment to a larger -- and unrelated -- bill authorizing federal aviation ...
Opinion: Why Not Mandate Gun Purchases, Too?
By Bernie Goldberg - AOL NewsWith everything else going on in the world, you may have missed a piece of news coming out of South Dakota. It seems that a few legislators in that state have introduced a bill that would require every one of South Dakota's citizens over 21 years of age to own a gun. Can you imagine? Lawmakers insisting that citizens own a gun or buy one if they don't already own one -- under penalty of law, no less! Government can't force people to buy something they don't want, can it? OK, you get it. So do the South Dakota lawmakers. According to State Rep. Hal Wick, one of the bill's five sponsors, "Do I ...
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